Images of the World in the Year 2000 : : A Comparative Ten Nation Study / / ed. by A. Siciński, H. Ornauer, H. Wiberg, J. Galtung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Arosalo, Uolevi,; Bartová, Evá,; Chatterjee, Bishwa B.,; Galtung, Johan,; Hartmann, Åke,; Inoguchi, Takashi,; Joenniemi, Pertti,; Konwicka, Teresa,; Kurczewski, Jacek,; Kutsch, Thomas,; Kàra, Karel,; Larsen, Knud S.,; Lutyk, A.,; Matthews, David,; Mushakoji, Kinhide,; Mycielska, D.,; Ornauer, Helmut,; Sicinski, Andrzej,; Siciński, A.,; Siciński, Andrzej,; Skjelsbæk, Kjell,; Van Der Veer, Kees,; Wiberg, H.,; Wiberg, Håkan,; Řehàk, Jan,
• HerausgeberIn: Galtung, J.,; Ornauer, H.,; Siciński, A.,; Wiberg, H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (730 p.) :; Num. figs., tab.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of participants in the Year 2000 project -- List of abbreviations and explanations -- PART I Introduction -- 1 On the future, future studies and future attitudes -- 2 Optimism versus pessimism -- PART II National samples compared -- 3 The future: A forgotten dimension -- 4 The future: A dimension being discovered -- 5 Data, methods, interpretations: A discussion -- 6 Replication on a nation: The Federal Republic of Germany -- 7 Replication on a youth group: The students -- 8 The Japanese image of the future -- 9 Opinions' shift in time -- PART III The social background of the images -- 10 Images of the woman and the family -- 11 Age groups and the future -- 12 War and peace as conceived in various social group -- 13 Social strata and attitudes towards peace and wa -- 14 Social position and the image of the future -- PART IV The content of the images -- 15 Homology of predictions and wishes -- 16 The powerful, the powerless and the future -- 17 Knowledge of military alliances -- 18 Young believers in a world state -- 19 Social structure and ideologies of peace -- 20 Intranational and international social position and peace attitudes -- 21 Images of other people's images -- PART V Conclusions -- 22 The future : Forgotten, and to be discovered -- PART VI Appendix -- 23 History and organization of the Year 2000 project -- 24 The basis and background of data interpretation -- 25 Description of the Indian sample -- 26 Social position, dogmatism and social participation as independent variables -- 27 The Year 2000 questionnaire and the marginals of 11 nations -- 28 List of questionnaire items with abbreviations used -- 29 List of project publications -- 30 Short biographies of the authors -- Index of names -- Index of subjects